This community-centered conversation will focus on the questions of how we commemorate history in the public space; how we memorialize individuals, ideologies, and communities; and how we respond to our past when our perspective changes. “Object Lessons: Do Public Monuments Have a Future?” Friday, April 27, 7:00 PM Chesterfield Building, 701 W Main St, Durham,
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Art as Social Action: An Introduction to the Principles and Practices of Teaching Social Practice Art Book Launch Friday, May 11, 2018 6-8pm The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation will host a book launch for Art as Social Action: An Introduction to the Principles and Practices of Teaching Social Practice Art, edited by Gregory Sholette
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Collaborating Across Age Groups — A Training with Duke Social Practice Lab & Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts May 12, 2018 2:00 - 4:00 Lab 1, Lower Level, New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) Pedro Lasch, Lauren Brandt Schloss, Jillian Greenberg, Lindsay Smilow, and Nate Koch Many socially engaged artists care for bridging age
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An artwork by Pedro Lasch, Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts, and FHI Social Practice Lab, with Nate Koch as special project producer. On Aug 2nd, 2018 (12:30-3:00pm) over 300 adults and 1,200 children ages 4-18 came together at Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts to produce an immersive art experience by and for each
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Please join the Franklin Humanities Institute at the Nasher Museum of Art for this exhibition closing event on John Akomfrah's Precarity (on view until September 2)! The Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University presents an interdisciplinary panel of humanities faculty on Precarity, the three-channel video by acclaimed British filmmaker John Akomfrah. Precarityis about the life and myth of Charles "Buddy" Bolden, the New
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